Biography:

John Budzinski, Freelance Writer & Photographer, writes from his home base in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley. He is an award winning newsletter editor for the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) and has worked for many corporations. He is APICS certified, CPIM, CIRM and has more than 25 years of Supply Chain and Materials Management experience in industries from high-tech, process, repetitive, defense, and job shops.  

He has been published in the Boston Globe, Connecticut Post (formerly "The Bridgeport Post), the Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, VA)  Portsmouth Herald (Portsmouth, NH), Worcester Telegram (Worcester, MA), The Patriot Ledger (Quincy, MA), The Republican-American (Waterbury, CT), among others, and shared column space with several other in Seacoast Sunday in New Hampshire.

When not working with his clients John unleashes his capricious and perceptive creative talents with observations on family, friends, enemies, strangers, and the world around hm. Sacrosanct subjects do not exist in this world of his and his thoughts, ideas, suggestions, rants and raves - optimistic and positive that they well may be - are just as likely to hit upon politics, religion, sports, culture, media, society, your pet dog, or favorite childhood dolly.

There is nothing so gratifying than going off on some rant or rage about something you have absolutely no conception or knowledge about and in the grand scheme of things really doesn't matter much past a morning flush but to say it with such dynamic and compelling rhetoric and with the conviction, passion, and the crazed ardor of Sunday Morning Come to Jesus TV Preacher that people just can't help being caught up in the flow and rhythms of words contrived and conceived and entwined together with such grandiose splendor that no one is compelled to doubt or challenge the unspoken oratory set before them.

Of course, there are those times when the simplest words written at a whimsically leisurely pace and at just the right time - those words that make one pause; think; reflect; tear up . . . smile . . . will float and dance across his being and find their way to his computer screen and before your eyes.

John is the creator and web guru for the soon to be released site business boneheads™. First conceived a few years ago and inspired by Motley Fool, the site is a light-hearted and off-the-cuff look into the business world. It is dedicated to the broken rules of business and the bonehead decisions made by 'bidness' people of vision that have been the seeds of success, profits, and growth - or the lack there of  - because of said broken rules on bonehead decisions. Highlights of what is to come can be seen on the link to the right.

John's latest venture is his new column called,

The column is new and different with a theme, Life is not lived like a Russian novel  . . . , and takes commentary to a new "less is more" level by intertwining it with the literary short story form - very short stories that are 400 words long. The commentative stories may have a moral to them, but are just as likely to be unresolved as are so many of life's fleeting moment.

His photography work took root when the desire came from and editor asking him to put pictures together with his words, and when he discovered being a news photographer got him access to places a writer couldn't go. His photos come from his assignments and  numerous travels across the US and abroad, but, mostly from his native New England. 

John Budzinski grew up in the Lordship section of Stratford, CT. He attended Great Neck School, just up the road from his house, and Blessed Sacrament, and Bullard Havens Tech, both in Bridgeport, CT. 

A graduate of Housatonic Community College in Bridgeport, and Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond with a BS in Business Management, he began writing to impress a college girlfriend's father.

The Father was the news editor of the local paper in Fredericksburg, VA, The Free Lance-Star. Knowing all fathers think their daughters' boyfriends are jerks, he wrote some political editorials to show his girlfriend's father that, "he may be a jerk, but at least he is a smart jerk!" Of course, this little ploy didn't work and said father still thought of John as a 25 watt bulb in a 100 watt world. 

John wrote about this incident some years later and continues to write from the same everyday events, writing from "behind the scene"  and supplying the voice to the walls, trees, craters, and creatures as they tell their stories. Looking for the story behind the story and the 'story less told', there is usually a anomalous spin to the tales he weaves. 

An eternal optimist and purveyor of  slightly twisted and distorted notions of humor, he is blessed with patient friends who let him become a nuisance in their lives. They show up unwittingly in many of his columns, stories, and occasionally in his photos, though rarely on his doorstep.